Nice comment Andy. I look forward to people's views on your specific and very good examples.
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Andrew Stewart <a...@universalsprout.com> wrote: > Accessibility does matter, but I do think that many people on this list do > get too close to the "accessibility at all cost" point of view. > > Lets take the example of google finance > http://www.google.com/finance?q=gbpaud quite a cool site using flash and js > to navigate quite a large amount of data (make sure you expand the slider at > the bottom of the flash graph to change the time scale and see how the list > of news articles on the right changes). How could this site be modified to > be meaningfully controlled by using the keyboard alone? I would be very > interested to hear people's opinions on the following points: > > • is this site accessible? and if not, please give real examples of saying > how it is hard for people with disabilities to use > • how could you make it more accessible without introducing a huge amount of > extra work for the developers and without having an adverse effect for > non-disabled users? > > Whilst I think there are some silly impenetrable sites on the internet, I > don't think web developers should really be that concerned with > accessibility - not because it isn't worth it, but because we have hardly > any power over what the user sees. The real people that should be > concentrating on accessibility are people working on creating browsers and > operating systems because they can really do something about it. > > Andy > > -- > a...@universalsprout.com > > Andrew Stewart > > Sydney :: +61(0)416 607 113 > London :: +44(0)7900 245 789 > > www.universalsprout.com :: websites that sprout > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > -- Jason Grant BSc, MSc CEO, Flexewebs Ltd. www.flexewebs.com ja...@flexewebs.com +44 (0)7748 591 770 Company no.: 5587469 www.flexewebs.com/semantix www.twitter.com/flexewebs www.linkedin.com/in/flexewebs ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
